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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rhodes, Richard, 1937- Making of the atomic bomb. New York : Simon & Schuster, c1986 (OCoLC)755268018 |
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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Rhodes |
| ISBN: | 0671441337 9780671441333 0684813785 9780684813783 0671657194 9780671657192 |
| OCLC Number: | 13793436 |
| Awards: | Pulitzer Prize, General Nonfiction, 1988. |
| Description: | 886 p., [42] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Responsibility: | Richard Rhodes. |
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Abstract:
Describes in human, political, and scientific detail the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the power of the atom, to the first bombs dropped on Japan.
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